Jeff Malet Photography

LOC National Book Festival (2010)

Setting a new attendance record, an estimated 150,000 book-lovers gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C for the 10th annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress.

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Linda Sue Park speaks at the National Book Festival. The daughter of Korean immigrants, she has been writing poems and stories since she was 4 years old, and her favorite thing to do as a child was to read. In 1997, she started writing her first book, “Seesaw Girl.” It was accepted that same year and published in 1999. Park won the Newbery Award in 2002 for “A Single Shard.” She is the author of “The 39 Clues: Book 9, Storm Warning" (Scholastic). She is also a contributor to the serialized story called “The Exquisite Corpse Adventure,” available exclusively on the Library of Congress website at http://www.Read.gov.
The 10th annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, was held on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jeff Malet).